Fake news. SpaceX itself proposed this schedule--and then completely flunked it:
Posted on 01/16/2025 4:53:49 PM PST by janetjanet998
well if you buy from Musk, you should know that and be prepared to ‘participate.’ he certainly doesn’t hide that fact from his customers. and buyer beware has always been the best way for the free market. we’ve got to the point now where we overengineer and overregulate everything.
In this case, that was some pretty spectacular “entertainment”! This beat even the big Russian booster a friend of mine and I watched come down, many years ago.
I think you’re barking up the right tree.
Can’t wait for next time.
Booster catch was magnificent!
I think you’re barking up the right tree.
Can’t wait for next time.
Booster catch was magnificent!
Elon was supposed to have successfully performed an orbital flight some years ago with Starship. Last year during Q1 was supposed to be an unmanned moon landing. This year Starship is supposed to be doing a moon landing entirely.
Elon is years behind the schedule sold to NASA and is supposed to be able to launch to the moon using something like 15-20 starships doing complicated orbital refueling and coordinated launches to the moon.
Elon is going to have to blow up 40-50 more rockets at this rate... which is probably why he is now selling the bullshit that going to the moon is pointless and we should be going to Mars (IOW, trying to cancel the moon mission after already spending all the money allocated to it with his “tests”).
This “go fast and breka stuff” propaganda exists just because anything Elon gets his hands on tends to explode because he demands his engineers add stupid shit that make it unworkable.
I don’t mean that it would make Musk or his people petty, but there’s always an element of competition, which is a good thing. With or without Bezos, they’ll learn from the experience, but they surely were disappointed when it went awry.
Bezos had a great success, but it’s unlikely to never hit a snag. I just hope all the problems happen with the unmanned spacecraft and none when people are onboard.
My understanding was that the Mars mission depended on a lunar base or leaving from an orbital station to save weight for the supplies needed.
“Video Starship Flight 7 breaking up”
Ugh, eerily looks like Columbia breaking up over Texas. What a horrible day that was.
If that’s so, Elon’s given it up now:
“Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA’s Moon Program
“The Moon is a distraction.””
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-scrap-nasa-moon-program
Bezos’s made it into orbit, something Starship can’t do and was supposed to accomplish more than a year ago in its schedule to NASA. That places Starship at stage 1 of development, with Bezos now on the way to the second milestone.
Lots of new stuff to test on a larger, improved ship
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The only similarity between the StarShip of Flight 6 and the StarShip of Flight 7 was the general shape - everything else was new or redesigned, including the increased size and increased propellant load.
Are they really that competent?
Any plans for Musk to recruit and put Janisse Quiñones, the guru of water reservoir minor repairs management, in place to head future efforts in order to ensure competent outcomes?
Elon is years behind the schedule sold to NASA
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The StarShip delay was caused by the FAA and the EPA, in conjunction with local environmentalists and their host of frivolous lawsuits. Not by the StarShip program itself.
That places Starship at stage 1 of development, with Bezos now on the way to the second milestone.
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Wrong. StarShip is in at least the 5th or 6th milestone - if you understand what milestones actually are.
New Glenn is years behind it’s announced schedule. It has just reached milestone 1 - a successful launch.
Fake news. SpaceX itself proposed this schedule--and then completely flunked it:
A successful Orbital launch, which Starship hasn't done. Every attempt so far has blown up before reaching orbit.
No, flights 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 made low orbit. The only Flights to disassemble were 1 and 7.
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